Automated transaction machine system

US6726097B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• DIEBOLD, INC. · US

Inventors

• H. Thomas Graef · Bolivar, US
• William D. Beskitt · Canton, US
• Damon J. Blackford · Akron, US
• Dale Blackson · Canton, US
• Robert Bowser · Cary, US
• Keith A. Drescher · Olympia, US
• Jeffrey Eastman · North Canton, US
• Matthew Force · Uniontown, US
• Sean Haney · North Canton, US
• Michael J. Harty · Canton, US
• Dale Horan · Indianapolis, US
• Andrew Junkins · Round Rock, US
• Edward L. Laskowski · Seven Hills, US
• Ashok Modi · Canton, US
• Mark Owens · Louisville, US
• Mike Ryan · Canton, US
• Bill Schadt · Wilmington, US
• David B. Schultz · Henderson, US
• Mike Theriault · Canton, US
• Mark D. Smith · Panama City, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 16, 2003
• Grant date: Apr 27, 2004
• Expiry date: May 16, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S209/942
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automated banking machine (10) identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers documents from storage and dispenses them to other users. The machine includes a central transport (70) wherein documents deposited in a stack are unstacked, oriented and identified. Such documents are then routed to storage areas in recycling canisters (92, 94, 96, 98). When a user subsequently requests a dispense, documents stored in the storage areas are selectively picked therefrom and delivered to the user through an input/output area (50) of the machine. The control system (30) for the machine includes a terminal processor (548). Identification devices identify the type and character of a document, and distinguish genuine documents, such as genuine currency bills, from unidentifiable or suspect documents.